Abstract: The papers and scrapbooks of the Goodman and Levy families of El Paso, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and the San Francisco
Bay Area.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Goodman and Levy family papers and scrapbooks, BANC MSS 2010/736, The Magnes Collection of Jewish
Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Levy, Parez.

Goodman, Aaron

Levy, Estelle Goodman--Diaries

Lemmon, Amelia Levy

Lemmon, Guy

Levy family--Archives

Goodman family--Archives

Temple Sinai (El Paso, Tex.)--Sisterhood

Brandeis University--National Women's Committee

National Council of Jewish Women

University of California, Berkeley

California Institute of Technology

Western Jewish History Center. 184

Judah L. Magnes Museum. WJHC 1972.003

Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Jews--Texas--El Paso

Jewish women--Texas--El Paso

Jewish merchants--Texas--El Paso

Jewish merchants--Tennessee--Nashville

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Wedding Books

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Goodman and Levy family papers and scrapbooks were gifted to the Bancroft Library by the Judah L. Magnes Museum in 2010.

Accruals

No future additions are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life staff in 2011.

Biographical Information

Estelle Goodman Levy was born in El Paso, Texas, where her father, Aaron, owned the Lion Grocery Company. Her grandfather,
Parez Levy, was an optician in Nashville, Tennessee. She attended Science Hall in Shelbyville, Kentucky and graduated from
Throop Academy in Pasadena, now the California Institute of Technology, in 1910. Estelle returned to El Paso and married Charles
Levy in 1916. She was active in the political, civic, social, historical, philanthropic and Jewish life of El Paso and the
Southwest, belonging to Mount Sinai Temple and many other local organizations including: the National Council of Jewish Women;
the Texas State Federation of Sisterhoods; the Women’s Club of El Paso; the Red Cross; the Parent Teachers Association; and
the Cloudcraft Recreation Camp baby sanitarium. With Isidore Bernard and Fanny Sattinger Goodman, two of her relatives, Estelle
supported the El Paso Historical Society and contributed articles to its quarterly. Estelle Levy’s daughter, Amelia Rose,
moved to Oakland, California in 1966 and married Edgar Guy Lemmon, Jr. in 1967.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection contains the following: a few items relating the life of Parez Levy in Tennessee, including a scrapbook and
a Masonic certificate; items relating to the life of Aaron Goodman in El Paso, Texas, including family scrapbooks with documents
and correspondence from Aaron's Lion Grocery Company and an 1889 legal document (in Spanish) relating to a Goodman's interests
in a mine in Juarez; the handwritten diaries of Estelle Goodman Levy (Aaron's daughter); a wedding book and marriage certificate
from the wedding of Estelle Goodman and Charles Levy; a number of scrapbooks documenting the life of Estelle Goodman Levy
in El Paso; and a significant number of items relating to the life of Amelia Levy Lemmon, including 48 scrapbooks and photo
albums dating from Amelia's school years through 2003. These document Amelia's experience at UC Berkeley and in the San Francisco
Bay Area, her activities in the Sisterhood of Oakland's Temple Sinai and in the Brandeis University National Women's Committee,
and her travels around the world. Amelia's childhood is also documented in the Goodman family scrapbooks in the collection.
The collection includes genealogical information about members of the Goodman, Levy, Frank, Lederer, Baruch, Brandt, Schenck,
and Sattinger families. Also included are some historical writings, including "My Parents, Joseph Hillel Goodman and Sarah
Rothschild Goodman" by Isidore B. Goodman and "In the Beginning: The Jewish Community of El Paso Texas" by Fanny Sattinger
Goodman.

Small leather-bound scrapbook with the following embossed on the cover: Parez Levy: Practical Optician. The book includes
clippings on social events and professional testimonials from various prominent Nashville residents.

Oversize Box 3

Amelia Levy Goodman scrapbook, circa 1880-1902

Scope and Content Note

Inscribed "Compliments of Jacob M. Levy to Amelia Levy, January 1885." Includes pasted decorative decals; miscellaneous clippings
on social events and news in Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi; and mementos

Oversize Box 1, Folder 1-2

Goodman family scrapbook, 1881-1910

Scope and Content Note

Material relating to Aaron Goodman, Amelia Levy Goodman, and Estelle Goodman. Business documents include invoices of family
grocery stores, business letters and statements for: P. Levy and Company, Nashville, Tennessee; A. Goodman at Earlham, New
Mexico; El Paso Grocery Co. Also included are clippings re Lion Grocer Co., El Paso. (The El Paso Grocery Co. of 1903-1904
was Goodman Produce Co.; in 1907, perhaps the Southwestern Commercial Co.; by 1911 the Lion Grocery Co.. Family papers included
are telegrams on the occasion of the 1890 wedding of Aaron and Amelia; wills for Amelia Levy Goodman and Aaron Goodman; obituaries;
and some masonic material for Aaron Goodman. The scrapbook also includes personal correspondence. Among the correspondence
is a letter dated 15 May 1878, from Esther Goodman, Amelia’s sister and first wife of Aaron Goodman, to her mother Rosa Levy.
(Esther presumably died in childbirth before 1890). Refers to Pauline and Jacob (perhaps her sister Pauline and her brother
J. W. Levy). Genealogy note: It is possible that this is the Pauline who became Mrs. Joseph Frank and later Mrs. Edward Lederer.
Pauline and Joseph’s son, Perry Frank (Sr.) married Amelia Baruch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig M. Baruch and niece of
Bernard Baruch. In 1934, Amelia Baruch Frank divorced Perry Frank Sr. and in 1937 married Polan Banks, a writer, in Havana.
They were later divorced. Perry Frank Sr. and Amelia Baruch Frank had a son, Perry Frank Jr., of the New York Times advertising
staff and American Broadcasting Company. Perry Frank Jr. married Joanne Schenck, daughter of Loew’s president, Nicholas Schenk
(1931?), who later divorced him and married Robert Brandt. Perry Frank Sr. married Dora (Doree?), who already had two children.
Charles Levy, who married Estelle Goodman, was a cousin of Perry Frank Jr. J.W. Levy, brother of Amelia Levy Goodman, of Nashville,
Tennessee and Union City, Tennessee, was connected with Friedman and Levy store that by 1881 had become New York Store. Photos
in the scrapbook include images of the Frank family, Rosa Levy, Leonard Goodman Sr. (Estelle Goodman Levy’s brother and son
of Amelia Levy Goodman and Aaron Goodman), Amelia Levy Goodman and L.S. Cunningham, friend of Aaron Goodman.

Carton 1, Folder 13-16

Estelle Goodman Levy scrapbook, 1907-1910

Scope and Content Note

Business documents and records of Lion Grocery Company in El Paso; family documents relating to Rosa Goodman Levy (Estelle's
grandmother); personal correspondence of Estelle Goodman; childhood recollections of Estelle Goodman, school reports; copies
of The Tattler (El Paso High School) from 1907; a 1910 copy of "Junior Polytechnic," a publication from Throop Polytechnic
Institute in Pasadena, Calif.

Carton 1, Folder 17-19

Estelle Goodman Levy scrapbook, 1909-1916

Scope and Content Note

Family documents, general correspondence of Estelle Goodman Levy, engagement correspondence; mementos and memorabilia. One
letter from Charles Levy to Estelle Goodman, sent on April 23, 1914, mentions a possible attack by Pancho Villa on El Paso
(an attack that never materialized).

Carton 1, Folder 20-22

Estelle Goodman Levy scrapbook, circa 1916-1928

Scope and Content Note

Family documents; correspondence; wedding materials from 1916 wedding and honeymoon of Charles Levy and Estelle Goodman (including
photographs); condolences sent to Estelle on the death of her mother; Amelia Levy Goodman; congratulations on birth of son,
Robert Aaron; baby care pamphlets and publications; clippings relating to marriage of Karl Goodman, Estelle's brother, to
Helen Pinkert; clippings relating to Baruch, Frank, and Lederer marriages; correspondence and ephemera relating to Estelle's
involvement in Mt. Sinai Temple in El Paso, the Council of Jewish Juniors, and the Women's Club of El Paso.

Oversize Box 10

Estelle Goodman Levy scrapbook, circa 1911-1953

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, documents, and ephemera relating to Estelle Goodman Levy's life in El Paso, Texas, her philanthropic activities,
and her work with the Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.

Oversize Box 9

Estelle Goodman Levy scrapbook, circa 1920-1963

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, documents, and ephemera relating to Estelle Goodman Levy's life in El Paso, Texas, her philanthropic activities,
and her work with the Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.

Oversize Box 2, Folder 1-3

Amelia Levy Lemmon scrapbook/photo album #37: UC Berkeley, 1951-1952

Scope and Content Note

Amelia Levy's UC Berkeley scrapbooks include a range of UC Berkely ephemera and memorabilia as well as menus, programs, and
other ephemera from her life in the San Francisco Bay Area.